Example sentences of "do [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 2 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
| 3 | I mean , as you say , I cover all the points but because you do n't do them in the right order perhaps you muck them up |
| 4 | But I could do them in the smaller size . ’ |
| 5 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 6 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 7 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 8 | My reason for not having done it myself and my father 's reasons for not having done it with the National Gallery is that , in the case of Yale , I 'm looking forward to the day when there 'll be other people interested in English art who will give paintings or money to the Center for British Art just because it is the Center for British Art , where they would n't do it if it was the Paul Mellon Center for British Art . |
| 9 | And I 've done it with the same manager — Harry Bassett . ’ |
| 10 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 11 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 12 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 13 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 14 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 15 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 16 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
| 17 | Will I do it on the other side ? |
| 18 | We could do it on the National Health . |
| 19 | There are a whole lot of players who can go out there and knock balls in all over the place , score wonderful great big one four sevens and centuries and things of this nature , but what makes the , the good player an excellent player , is the player who can do it on the big occasion . |
| 20 | we want it done in both directions , there 's no way you can do it on the main line |
| 21 | If you want one , we can do it at the same time as the valuation , at a reduced fee , but we must be told at the outset . |
| 22 | Now it 's naughty with a capital N. So you do n't do it , or you do n't do it in the normal way , which is relying on somebody inside a company to tell you things . |
| 23 | No , I wo n't do it then I 'll do it I 'll do it in the early evening when no one 's too drunk . |
| 24 | Why ca n't you do it in the front room then ? |
| 25 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 26 | If they can do it in the far North , surely I can do it in the South ? ’ |
| 27 | If they can do it in the far North , surely I can do it in the South ? |
| 28 | ‘ To get my 150th would be another landmark and it would be nice if I could do it in the Premier League . ’ |
| 29 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 30 | Everybody 's got ta do it in the long run . |